[Qgis-developer] New Python console idea: Expanding the Python console to handle DSLs for plugins eg CADTools

[Nathan Woodrow]

That sounds like a pretty good idea too.  Shoudn't be too hard to whip up a
prototype for that.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I would appreciated any feedback anyone has.  I'm not a python expert so
> the
> > code could be done better if done for real but at the moment it's just
> rough
> > to get the idea out there.
>
>  I like the idea of supplying console functionality for plugins.
>
>  I don't like the idea of piggybacking via "PREFIX: foo" syntax onto
> Python.
>
>  People might think they can mix python variables with variables in
> other DSLs. Which would be tricky.
>
>  What might be nice would be if the Python console could exist in a
> tabbed window, and plugins could have an 'open console' option, which
> would add a tab to the python console. This would provide standard
> console functionality and then feed the lines to a handler registered
> by the plugin.
>
>  Maybe you could even have seventeen python console tabs open at once
> next to four SQL command tabs and one interface to the QGIS API
> written in perl?
>
> Barry
>
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